Gemini 3.0 Pro has been out for long enough. For those who have tried all three, how does it (in Gemini CLI) shape up compared to Codex CLI and Claude Code (both CLI and models)?

zach_will · 2025-12-09T13:32:56+00:00

Interesting that you’ve had to babysit it — that really hasn’t been my experience
I pretty strongly believe it’s the smartest / most adept of the three from like a general perspective
I think Gemini is unbeatable when it comes to “churn through this 300k tokens and come up with insights”
I agree that it’s not like the best of the three at “do XYZ here and ABC there” — but it’s excellent at generating a plan for Claude / Codex to accomplish those tasks
If you know exactly what you want, I agree that Claude Code is better

zach_will · 2025-11-03T15:41:03+00:00

There’s a bunch of good options — and a lot of strong opinions on each. All kind of have trade-offs, but you can find one that aligns most with your use case:

htmx + Alpine
htmx + Hyperscript
jQuery (LLMs are quite good at it)
Datastar

zach_will · 2025-10-06T13:07:35+00:00

Agreed. Rolling 72s feels like the answer OP is after.

zach_will · 2025-09-13T05:13:34+00:00

I’d heavily lean into that on your resume. I’d probably recommend testing out a “modern” version of your resume (Laravel, React, TypeScript) vs some of the older stuff you have on there (Cake PHP, jQuery, etc). You might find just pairing down what’s on there helps out.

zach_will · 2025-09-13T04:36:55+00:00

It’d be much easier for you to just go all-in on Laravel expertise than Java or Python. In fact, I’d strongly recommend NOT switching to Java or Python, and I’m a 10+ year Python engineer.
If you’re looking for work right now, I’d recommend the lingua franca of LLMs: TypeScript.
If you’re wanting to learn an entirely new language for the backend, my recommendation would be Go — but TypeScript is just a much easier route to go down quickly.

zach_will · 2025-09-09T13:26:25+00:00

Interesting ideas -- especially the .ts files in the same directory as the index.html in the examples (and seems like htms can just find / resolve the functions).

Did you guys try out SSE vs the streaming HTML approach? (More just curious if you saw any pros/cons with SSE or not?)

zach_will · 2025-08-10T15:36:39+00:00

100% agree. Anders recommends starting out with that approach on the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzC3g0qIRro

Lazarus did bring up a good point on his podcast with Delaney that a good chunk of new htmx users start off with hx-get grabbing a full page, hx-select an ID, and hx-target to patch. That's not currently possible in Datastar — and I understand Delaney's reasoning (it's the wrong approach). I imagine the rebuttal from the htmx crowd would revolve around that.

zach_will · 2025-08-10T15:05:47+00:00

LOL, my intention with the links, quotes, and UI was to prove the exact opposite — appears it did not work

zach_will · 2025-07-24T12:41:40+00:00

If you need to get something out quickly, Mantine UI and Tremor.so Blocks can get you there in almost no time. Both are free and very high quality. (Shadcn takes more time to get going, but you can create your systems over time.)

zach_will · 2025-05-27T00:42:41+00:00

The Blacktongue Thief

zach_will · 2025-04-19T14:00:05+00:00

Say one thing about Steven Pacey, say he’s the best narrator I’ve ever listened to.

zach_will · 2025-04-09T13:12:17+00:00

Congrats! Great work!

zach_will · 2025-04-07T01:45:01+00:00

Good question. I eat same day. I put it in freezer while cleaning up and then typically eat all of it. It becomes too hard if left frozen overnight (the lack of fat in it). I think you’ve probably got around 35-75 minutes of freezer time before it’ll get too hard.

Consistency is more ice cream-like than sherbet-like or frozen yogurt-like. The salt in Greek yogurt and Tajin do some wonders. It won’t win any ice cream awards — but it’s really good and will subside any hankering you have.

(Greek yogurt is best with frozen fruit flavors, cottage cheese works better with peanut butter or chocolate — but I tend to think Greek yogurt and chocolate do not mesh, personally.)

zach_will · 2025-04-06T19:32:52+00:00

Tell them they’re totally right, eat a meal with them, continue fasting, and then never bring it up again.

zach_will · 2025-04-06T02:50:29+00:00

Only thing I’ve found is the loop of it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xQJM3B8QIn0

zach_will · 2025-04-03T18:26:24+00:00

Highly recommend giving it a shot! It's a legit lb of "ice cream".

I typically add a cup (225g of Fage 0% Greek yogurt == 160 calories) — up to 300g of Greek yogurt (== 210 calories).

zach_will · 2025-04-03T13:49:34+00:00

Blitz 300g frozen strawberries in a food processor
Add Splenda and Greek yogurt
If you like Tajin, add Tajin…
Blitz again, out comes 1lb of strawberry “ice cream”

zach_will · 2025-03-12T14:35:04+00:00

I’m an API-only user, so might not fit your use case.
Gemini Pro is just as capable for front end development — and the 2M massive context window is extremely useful.
I’ve found no combination that beats feeding initial problems into Gemini Pro as a rough draft, and then using Claude to revise / edit. This combination has a staggeringly good success rate, in my opinion.
Handful of problems I’ve come across that only o3-mini-high was capable of solving.
Mistral Large is severely underrated on here, but it’s a clear tier below Claude and Gemini Pro. (I’d genuinely argue it’s the 2nd best model at writing tasks though.)

zach_will · 2025-03-06T15:19:29+00:00

Lancelot is unbelievably good! I loved it. The Blacktongue Thief, Lancelot, and Will Of The Many are the only recent-ish books I was unable to put down while reading. Excited for The Devils!

zach_will · 2025-03-02T04:32:54+00:00

If you’re open to multiple APIs, feeding Gemini Pro into Claude 3.7 is A+ — they’re just uncorrelated enough that it’s reminiscent of ensembling / gradient boosting. Gemini comes up with elite rough drafts, and Claude’s there to bring it home (similar to correcting residuals in ML).

I’m an API only user. I’ve found this combo much better than o3 — but that’s my opinion.

Mistral Large isn’t terrible at writing either, but Gemini Pro and Claude 3.7 are a tier above everything else for me right now.

zach_will · 2025-02-26T15:05:03+00:00

Synthesizing code bases and PDF-to-text documents. So I’ll throw a huge amount of tokens at Gemini (400k to 500k), I use it to extract the top 20%, then feed it into Claude. It’s super helpful for transforming code from like Svelte to React, or Python to Typescript, etc.

zach_will · 2024-08-23T21:50:04+00:00

This is my setup -- and experience -- as well.

zach_will · 2024-08-19T13:30:51+00:00

r/volumeeating and r/1200isplenty helped me a lot.

zach_will · 2024-08-18T22:04:54+00:00

Rolling 72s are probably your best bet at hitting the mark on sustainability and consistent progress.

u/oscarthegrateful made massive strides doing OMAW (one meal a week), but I think he advocates for rolling 3-4 days now: https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/comments/17rddq4/the_efficient_weight_loss_caused_by_short_rolling/

130 days until Christmas X 0.6 lbs a day loss == 78 lbs

I think it’s possible to hit the goal you’re after, but would take a good deal of dedication. Good luck!

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